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Dolichos lablab, syn. Lablab purpureus; Purple Hyacinth Bean Thanks to Nancy J. Ondra for the seeds! These plants are doing well at Luciano’s house in Galeazza and Maria’s place in Renazzo, so we’ll definitely have seeds for next year! View high resolution

Dolichos lablab, syn. Lablab purpureus; Purple Hyacinth Bean

Thanks to Nancy J. Ondra for the seeds! These plants are doing well at Luciano’s house in Galeazza and Maria’s place in Renazzo, so we’ll definitely have seeds for next year!

Allium schoenoprasum Sometimes the common classics are my favourites. Chives. Nothing special, right? Wrong! Fantastic! As delicious as they are beautiful. The perfect herb. View high resolution

Allium schoenoprasum

Sometimes the common classics are my favourites. Chives. Nothing special, right? Wrong! Fantastic! As delicious as they are beautiful. The perfect herb.

Campanula persicifolia View high resolution

Campanula persicifolia

Allium ‘Globemaster’ View high resolution

Allium ‘Globemaster’

Pinkle Tulip, Galeazza Garden Not really pink, not exactly purple.. View high resolution

Pinkle Tulip, Galeazza Garden

Not really pink, not exactly purple..

Three Weeds: Weed Number One - Lamium purpureum (Red Dead-nettle) I’d have to agree with the Latin name more than the English - how about you? Honestly - Red? View high resolution

Three Weeds: Weed Number One - Lamium purpureum (Red Dead-nettle)

I’d have to agree with the Latin name more than the English - how about you? Honestly - Red?

One plant, two colours I never knew Ipomea purpurea could do this.  View high resolution

One plant, two colours

I never knew Ipomea purpurea could do this. 

Aster novi-belgii, New Belgium Aster This, too, will have to wait for a better name. For now we’ll just call it the dark purple one. View high resolution

Aster novi-belgii, New Belgium Aster

This, too, will have to wait for a better name. For now we’ll just call it the dark purple one.

Ipomea purpurea - Purple Morning Glory View high resolution

Ipomea purpurea - Purple Morning Glory

Purple in Paradise I’m sure there are purple flowers in heaven, and if there are seasons, in summer the lucky few might see this blooming. The leaves of this flower look quite a bit like straps of allium, but they’re not… this is the August blooming Tulbaghia violacea (Society Garlic, Pink Agapanthus). From one small clump purchased four years ago, it has been coming back every year bigger and better. A delicate variegated variety that my friend Stephanie brought to me from the UK and that I planted close by to show two varieties of the same genus and species lasted only a year. Mice? Too cold? I don’t know. View high resolution

Purple in Paradise

I’m sure there are purple flowers in heaven, and if there are seasons, in summer the lucky few might see this blooming. The leaves of this flower look quite a bit like straps of allium, but they’re not… this is the August blooming Tulbaghia violacea (Society Garlic, Pink Agapanthus). From one small clump purchased four years ago, it has been coming back every year bigger and better. A delicate variegated variety that my friend Stephanie brought to me from the UK and that I planted close by to show two varieties of the same genus and species lasted only a year. Mice? Too cold? I don’t know.

Baby Perovskia atriplicifolia plants, starting to grow from cuttings. Not long ago their mother was in the Galeazza Emergency Room, but all is going well. View high resolution

Baby Perovskia atriplicifolia plants, starting to grow from cuttings.

Not long ago their mother was in the Galeazza Emergency Room, but all is going well.

Pumpkin Leaves and Bean Flowers If you can tell a pumpkin from its leaf or a rose from its thorns, you can also difinitely tell a bean from its flower - and the purple of this flower will help you remember the bean’s name: Purple Hyacinth Bean - fantastic in Latin: Dolichos lablab! View high resolution

Pumpkin Leaves and Bean Flowers

If you can tell a pumpkin from its leaf or a rose from its thorns, you can also difinitely tell a bean from its flower - and the purple of this flower will help you remember the bean’s name: Purple Hyacinth Bean - fantastic in Latin: Dolichos lablab!

Buddleja davidii - Butterfly bush I think this plant has made it onto the list of top 100 weeds of the world… and I propogate more of it every year! View high resolution

Buddleja davidii - Butterfly bush

I think this plant has made it onto the list of top 100 weeds of the world…

and I propogate more of it every year!

Liatris spicata (Gayfeather or Blazing Star) Another American prairie flower - not native to these parts. How wrong of me. I should confess I also listened to some South American music whilst driving to Rome this past weekend. How bold. I should have stuck with Vivaldi, but I was falling asleep! Last year I made fun of FLW when I posted this flower that he so adored. This year I’ll not even bother telling you who he is… not a gardener, for sure! View high resolution

Liatris spicata (Gayfeather or Blazing Star)

Another American prairie flower - not native to these parts. How wrong of me. I should confess I also listened to some South American music whilst driving to Rome this past weekend. How bold. I should have stuck with Vivaldi, but I was falling asleep!

Last year I made fun of FLW when I posted this flower that he so adored. This year I’ll not even bother telling you who he is… not a gardener, for sure!

Scabiosa atropurpurea - Sweet Scabious

Stephanie Mahon gave me this plant last year, and I’m slowly spreading it around. I remember it blooming last year, and might be posting something you’ve already seen on this blog, but as I enter my second year of blogging, I’m torn between wanting to always show something new and exciting and wanting to show the cyclical beauty of perennial flowers returning year after year. Somehow reassuring - like friends who come back to the castle every year.